DOING SOCIOLOGY IN INDIA

Genealogies, Locations, and Practices

Sujata Patel

DOING SOCIOLOGY IN INDIA

Genealogies, Locations, and Practices

Sujata Patel

Description

This volume debates the different ways in which ideas, practices, and traditions of sociology grew, were organized, and institutionalized in India from the mid-nineteenth century till present times. It facilitates, in a small way, an understanding of the histories of the discipline, while critically examining their origin and growth, their impact, and their limitations. The interplay of three themes- time, space, and power-structures the arguments in this book. The essays in this collection highlight two separate but connected dominant positions that have structured the formation of sociological traditions in India-colonialism and its practices, and ideologies of nationalism and notions of nation and nationhood.

DOING SOCIOLOGY IN INDIA

Genealogies, Locations, and Practices

Sujata Patel

Table of Contents

SECTION I PASTS AND PRESENTS: DEBATING DISCIPLINARY GENEALOGIES1. The Genealogy of the Discipline in Bombay, Manorama Savur2.The Public Culture of Sociology in Calcutta, Anjan Ghosh3.Searching for Bedrock: Contending with the Lucknow School and its Legacy, Sasheej Hegde4.Social Anthropology or Marxist Sociology? Situating the divergent sociologies of M.N.Srinivas and A.R.Desai, Sujata Patel

SECTION II BETWEEN NATION AND REGION: SITUATING SOCIOLOGY5. Of Centres and Peripheries: Sociology in Goa, Alito Siqueira and Manish Thakur; 6. Legacy and Rigour: The Bombay School of Sociology and its impact in Universities in Maharashtra, D.N Dhanagare7.Looking
Back: The Practice of Sociology in CSSS/JNU, Maitrayee Choudhury8.Sociology in Karnataka: The Formation and Decline of a Discipline, N Jayaram